2025 Regular Season Thread Vol. 8

[twix2500]

13 games only 2 three pointers made by Ware

Spo and Bam has to get Ware involved in taking 3 pointers. He has to stretch the floor

[twix2500]

Arison needs to call Wizards ownership and offer them a mill to release Brogdon.


Aww **** the deadline passed on the 1st

[SoFlaKingReal]

This team won’t be relevant again for several years at the earliest. Trade/Fire everyone.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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It starts at the top.

[contract]

13 games only 2 three pointers made by Ware

[wadenation305]

The band-aid is ripped off. We should really take this opportunity to do a proper rebuild. Tear everything down.

I love Bam, wish he could be on this team for life. But he's wasting his career here at this point and he's our most valuable player by a mile. I really like him in OKC. We can swap Bam with hart cleanly, and they have a ton of picks that they don't even know what to do with. Besides our picks. If we can get all our picks back from them plus (our '25 pick would already be a picked player) plus additional picks like the 76ers from them. Talking about 5-6 picks total.

For Herro it's a lot harder. He has value, but he plays at a position where almost every team has one already. I spent hours tinkering with a trade machine trying to find a trade that made sense for both teams but didn't really find one. Might just keep him as our big contract for cap floor purposes to be traded at a later time should something advantageous presents itself.

If we can get 2 2nd's for Terry as cap relief at the deadline ship him out. Wiggins also should have at least a 1st round pick or two value. Play Ware, Jovic, Jaquez, Larson as many minutes as possible, really see what you have in those guys.

The one thing that is for certain is that Giannis, Donic, Jokic, SGA, Tatum/Brown, those types of guys..... they aren't walking through the Heat's training facility doors anytime soon. Even if they wanted to come here. We couldn't be in the conversation. That's just reality. Our best chance is to find the next SGA, not acquiring him via trade.

[wade44]

The band-aid is ripped off. We should really take this opportunity to do a proper rebuild. Tear everything down.

I love Bam, wish he could be on this team for life. But he's wasting his career here at this point and he's our most valuable player by a mile. I really like him in OKC. We can swap Bam with hart cleanly, and they have a ton of picks that they don't even know what to do with. Besides our picks. If we can get all our picks back from them plus (our '25 pick would already be a picked player) plus additional picks like the 76ers from them. Talking about 5-6 picks total.

For Herro it's a lot harder. He has value, but he plays at a position where almost every team has one already. I spent hours tinkering with a trade machine trying to find a trade that made sense for both teams but didn't really find one. Might just keep him as our big contract for cap floor purposes to be traded at a later time should something advantageous presents itself.

If we can get 2 2nd's for Terry as cap relief at the deadline ship him out. Wiggins also should have at least a 1st round pick or two value. Play Ware, Jovic, Jaquez, Larson as many minutes as possible, really see what you have in those guys.

The one thing that is for certain is that Giannis, Donic, Jokic, SGA, Tatum/Brown, those types of guys..... they aren't walking through the Heat's training facility doors anytime soon. Even if they wanted to come here. We couldn't be in the conversation. That's just reality. Our best chance is to find the next SGA, not acquiring him via trade.

I do wonder if Bam would be the guy OKC would want to go all in for. Going to be 28 in July. 50+ million per season. They have a lot of their own players that will eventually demand a fat contract and will need to make a decision on. I’m under the impression they have all these picks locked and loaded waiting for a younger superstar to shake loose like an Ant Edwards

[3ballbomber]

Maybe if we send a few firsts for 37 year old Durant, we can beat the Hornets next year.

[DayofMourning]

Looking forward to seeing some fresh faces in the draft thread.

[DayofMourning]

If we lose the next 5 games our winning % would have us moving up one slot to the 10th pick.

[Kobewade11]

We have to be coming up on some sort of record for most blown double digit leads in a season, right? I cant recall ever seeing anything like this

[MartyConlonJr]

Honestly there are 18 games left. Even if we lost all 18, which we know won't happen, we would get outtanked by most of the guys below us.
Washington, Utah, Charlotte and New Orleans are more than 12.5 games behind us, so scratch them.
The next tier of Toronto, Philly and Brooklyn are all gunning for Flagg. Philly has shut everyone down and owe their pick if not top 6, so all three are going to have some egregious tanking to stay there. Even if they didn't, we are 7 games ahead of them. So scratch them.
Spurs lost Wemby, they are in the tank, 2-8 in their last 10. So maybe over their last 19 you could hope them to go 4-15, but are 2.5 behind us, so we'd have to go 1-17.
That only really leaves Portland and Chicago to jump with a full blown tank.

Chicago and Miami should basically both try to have a worse record than Portland, then do the 9 v 10 play in. Loser gets a 20.3% chance at a top 4 pick, winner gets a second play-in game. Not sure that catching Portland is even possible.

[3ballbomber]

Our brilliant tanking has everybody frantic & in true heat fan fashion want to rebuild like many of these losing organisations that haven’t sniffed a finals, let alone a con. finals in decades.

I must be 1 of the only ones who sees this team close to being a true contender. The beauty of it? We drafted & developed our key players, also adding Ware into the mix. Im proud of that. This is a process & we’ve simply been working hard behind the scenes developing players & trying to problem solve our way through the limitations we have. We just lost Butler & in a sudden transition stage. You think we are just going to go on a fire sale like we’re a sinking ship when we’re far from it.

Once we finish our tank we cld move up in the draft & acquire solid talent. We cld also possibly land a difference maker in the offseason as well as other moves that will improve our team. Nxt season we cld have a solid team to contend w/. Not to mention players shaking loose at the trade deadline. A lot of possibilities. We don’t need to go the same route as all these other losing teams.

[Beenie]

To everyone who betched and moaned for years that Mia should trade Butler, hope your happy.

The Tito’s have taken over, just like u wanted to happen, and they are still Titoing per usual.

For the crowd who wanted to rebuild around the Tito’s, maybe now put some of that “trade Jimmy” energy into “trade the Tito’s” so that the team can do a proper rebuild and have a future with actual optimism

[jbsays]

I'm not sure why people are so against Durant if you can add him to Bam, Herro, Ware, and some of the other young guys. He seems like a guy you could plug in to stop these scoring droughts. Obviously he's not going to be a 30+ppg scorer and he's only get 2-3 seasons left. But, I don't see a younger guy coming here.

Seems to me the only options are:

1) Try to get an older guy like Durant to pair with Bam, Herro, Ware, and whoever else.
2) Slightly overpay for a younger guy you think will turn into an All NBA/Allstar level player.
3) Rebuild. This means moving Bam and Herro for picks and younger talent.
4) Stay the same and fight for 8-10 in the East.

[twix2500]

Spo needs to utilize Wiggins more as a post up option. He is only getting under 2 post ups per game.
Wiggins is leading the League with the Heat in 1.19 points per possession and 63.6 eFG% when posting up. He needs to be getting 3 post ups per game, especially in the fourth. Less of the hand offs.

[twix2500]

Spo needs to utilize Wiggins more as a post up option. He is only getting under 2 post ups per game.
Wiggins is leading the League with the Heat in 1.19 points per possession and 63.6 eFG% when posting up. He needs to be getting 3 post ups per game, especially in the fourth. Less of the hand offs.

Ware has to become a reliable and consistent three point threat. He has only made 2 three points in his last 13 games.

[Beenie]

I'm not sure why people are so against Durant if you can add him to Bam, Herro, Ware, and some of the other young guys. He seems like a guy you could plug in to stop these scoring droughts. Obviously he's not going to be a 30+ppg scorer and he's only get 2-3 seasons left. But, I don't see a younger guy coming here.

Seems to me the only options are:

1) Try to get an older guy like Durant to pair with Bam, Herro, Ware, and whoever else.
2) Slightly overpay for a younger guy you think will turn into an All NBA/Allstar level player.
3) Rebuild. This means moving Bam and Herro for picks and younger talent.
4) Stay the same and fight for 8-10 in the East.

Because its not likely gonna happen.

Rinse n repeat, fans clamor for star, team tries to get the star, but ultimately is outbid.

[jbsays]

I'm not sure why people are so against Durant if you can add him to Bam, Herro, Ware, and some of the other young guys. He seems like a guy you could plug in to stop these scoring droughts. Obviously he's not going to be a 30+ppg scorer and he's only get 2-3 seasons left. But, I don't see a younger guy coming here.

Seems to me the only options are:

1) Try to get an older guy like Durant to pair with Bam, Herro, Ware, and whoever else.
2) Slightly overpay for a younger guy you think will turn into an All NBA/Allstar level player.
3) Rebuild. This means moving Bam and Herro for picks and younger talent.
4) Stay the same and fight for 8-10 in the East.

Because its not likely gonna happen.

Rinse n repeat, fans clamor for star, team tries to get the star, but ultimately is outbid.

That's why I think 1 or 2 are most likely if they're looking to add somebody. It's either going to be an older guy past his prime or a young guy who they will have to overpay with hopes he'll continue to get better. I don't see them being able to add a guy in his prime like Edwards or even Trae Young.

[SerialChiller]

The band-aid is ripped off. We should really take this opportunity to do a proper rebuild. Tear everything down.

I love Bam, wish he could be on this team for life. But he's wasting his career here at this point and he's our most valuable player by a mile. I really like him in OKC. We can swap Bam with hart cleanly, and they have a ton of picks that they don't even know what to do with. Besides our picks. If we can get all our picks back from them plus (our '25 pick would already be a picked player) plus additional picks like the 76ers from them. Talking about 5-6 picks total.

For Herro it's a lot harder. He has value, but he plays at a position where almost every team has one already. I spent hours tinkering with a trade machine trying to find a trade that made sense for both teams but didn't really find one. Might just keep him as our big contract for cap floor purposes to be traded at a later time should something advantageous presents itself.

If we can get 2 2nd's for Terry as cap relief at the deadline ship him out. Wiggins also should have at least a 1st round pick or two value. Play Ware, Jovic, Jaquez, Larson as many minutes as possible, really see what you have in those guys.

The one thing that is for certain is that Giannis, Donic, Jokic, SGA, Tatum/Brown, those types of guys..... they aren't walking through the Heat's training facility doors anytime soon. Even if they wanted to come here. We couldn't be in the conversation. That's just reality. Our best chance is to find the next SGA, not acquiring him via trade.

Yeah I think it's time to clean house. Actually we should even try and trade Spo and leverage his over inflated reputation around the league for a 1st or 2 as well . Before he moves into Riley's seat and makes us the smallest team in NBA history for the next few decades straight. And get a coach in here that is actually open to playing the young guys big minutes and in their proper positions.